This "tells all" autobiography of James Shaw, 33 degree Mason details the life of a young boy, expelled from his abusive family, who rose to the top of the Mason pyramid and in his final days reexamind what the Masons really stood for.
Fate pushed him into a Christian environment allowing him to compare that one to the Masonic principles he knew so well.
A series of nicely constructed appendices brings out point-by-point differences of comparison.
The 33rd Degree initiation ceremony revealed for the first time in history.
Now we can visit behind these locked doors into this deadly deception which is victimizing multitudes of sincere men which are blindly following a path whose destination is hidden til the end.
"And these victimized men, 'ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,' don’t even realize that they are victims. How very sad."
It opens the door to the inner workings of this and other lodge-based organizations which have copied its pathways as a model.
Foreword
1 On my own
    Work begins early
    Living with physical abuse
    The beatings come to an end
    "You must go"
    The seed is planted
2 In search of a future
    Alone again
    Bonnie enters my life
    My first experience of fraternal orders
    Mothers last goodbye
    War comes
    The masonic connection
    Climbing Shaw hill
    Footnotes
3 Brought to the light
    Why all these pennies
    First steps toward the light
    Preparation for initiation
    Into the holy place
    Brought to the light
    Kissing Jesus goodbye
    I wanted a glass of water
    The pennies explained
    Footnotes
4 I'm going to florida
    One cold night
    A temporary standstill
    So why leave?
    Back into the craft
    A fellow craft mason
    Footnotes
5 Master Mason
    Taking the master mason oath
    But there was more
    An unexpected disappointment
    Living out the legend
    Footnotes
6 Going higher
    From candidate to instructor
    Why leave at all?
    Moving up through the chairs
    Beyond the blue lodge
    2 paths from which to choose
    Into the scottish rite
    Through the degrees
    Anointed a priest and a prophet
    Footnotes
7 Branching out
    Suddenly a promotion
    But uncle Irvin wasn't pleased
    The raising of Mike and the hands-off policy
    I become a degree master
    Filling the void
    A chaplain learns to pray
    The Koran fez and fun becoming a shriner
    Footnotes
8 A religion at last
    "The lodge is a good enough Religion"
    The ten commandments
    A disturbing thought
    I become worshipful master
    An interesting testimony
    A strange and interesting theory
    I wanted to understand
    The junior warden leaves the lodge
    More questions without answers
    A knight commander of the court of honor
    A religious belief at last
    A serious contradiction
    We embrace reincarnation
    A dual commitment
    Footnotes
9 The gathering storm
    Disappointment in the shrine
    You don't qualify
    The all-star football game
    Good news and bad news
    A doctor with simple good news
    A bold diagnosis
    "He is a religious fanatic"
    "Go back home and do whatever he tells you"
    Increasing knowledge and growing discomfort
    Searching the scriptures
    The scriptures were so  simple
    The conflict comes into focus
    One or the other was wrong
    On a collision course with a choice
    Seeking the counsel of others
    The light breaks through
    "Hey doc is this really true"
    This time it was real
    Something inside me changed
    An operation, a prayer and a hurricane
    Footnote
10 Into the light
    The highest masonic degree
    I made it on my own
    3 days at the mountain top
    Arriving at the house of the temple
    The temple itself
    Interviewed by the supreme council
    Becoming a sovereign grand inspector general
    Wine in a human skull
    Prominent men took part
    Maundy Thursday
    The words had meaning now
    A black communion
    Extinguishing the candle
    The final parting
    "It isn't right"
    Footnote
11 Walking in the light
    A friend loveth at all times
    Making it official
    My last masonic funeral
    "Jim, you had better go"
    My last masonic prayer
    "Alas, my brother"
    "I will be glad to have you gone"
    Once a mason, always a mason
    Beginning a new life
    Drinking in a new life
    Learning to lead someone to the Lord
    The winning of Mike
    "I have led a very wicked life"
    In moments it was done
    Shunned by the brothers
    Persecution on the job brings blessing
    Uncle Irvins parting words
    The past is prologue
    So many men like me
    At the end of a long night
    Footnotes
Epilogue: In the years that followed
A personal word from Jim
APPENDIX A: Masonic doctrine versus Christian doctrine
    1. JESUS CHRIST
    2. THE BIBLE
    3. GOD
    4. REDEMPTION
    5. SATAN
    6. SPIRITUAL LIGHT AND DARKNESS
    7. PRAYER
    8. TRUTHFULNESS
    9. SECRECY
    10. BLOOD OATHS
    11. SEEKING AND FINDING
    12. EXCLUSIVENESS
APPEN B: Masonic symbolism
    1. THE ULTIMATE DECEPTION
    2. THE FOUNDATION OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM: PHALLIC WORSHIP
APPEN C: Masonic morality
    1. UNDERLYING ATTITUDES AND ASSUMPTIONS
    2. SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF MASONIC MORALITY
        a. FORNICATION AND ADULTERY
        b. CHEATING, WRONGING, DEFRAUDING
        c. LYING AND PERJURING
        d. HELPING OTHERS
APPEN D: The Legend of Hiram Abiff
    1. THE MASONIC TRADITION
    2. THE BIBLE RECORD
    3. THE EGYPTIAN CONNECTION
        a. THE LEGEND OF ISIS AND OSIRIS
        b. A BRIEF COMPARISON OF THE LEGENDS OF HIRAM ABIFF AND OSIRIS
        c. CONCLUSIONS OF THE MASONIC AUTHORITIES
APPEN E: The 32nd degree lecture
    THE LECTURE OF THE 32ND DEGREE
    AND THAT’S IT!
A PRAYER FOR FREEDOM
Index
This epub is NOT autogenerated gibber, it has been spell-checked and bookmarked.

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